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Google's 'Gmail Motion' Prank is Even Less Funny Now That It's Real

by Amar Toor on April 4, 2011 at 10:20 AM

Google's Gmail Motion hoax might not be so far-fetched after all. A group of post-doc students at USC's Institute for Creative Technologies has turned Google's April Fools' joke into reality, using their software engineering skills and Microsoft Kinect motion sensors. They even incorporated the same ridiculous gestures that Google demonstrated in its prank video.

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